Strategic CTO and digital transformation leader with a robust background in computer science and a flair for spearheading product innovation and change management within the tech industry. Demonstrated expertise in driving digitalization efforts, resulting in significant business growth and operational excellence across several leading firms. Adept at building and mentoring high-caliber teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions, I excel in aligning technological innovations with strategic business goals. Passionate about leveraging agile methodologies to foster a culture of excellence and innovation, I am seeking to leverage my skills in a dynamic new environment where I can continue to drive impactful digital change.
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Business Development ManagerGavdi GroupAalborg, Dk -
Chief Technology OfficerRarewine Jan 2021 - Jul 2024Spearheaded digital transformation as CTO, aligning 15+ technology initiatives with business goals, facilitating expansion into 3 new markets, automating sales/customer onboarding, and boosting financial operational efficiency by 250% through ERP enhancements.Notable achievements:⮞ Revolutionized sales efficiency, slashing Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) by 35% while boosting advisor productivity by 600% through a new sales platform.⮞ Launched a 360-degree platform, propelling RareWine into the global top three for end-to-end solutions, driving scalability, automation, and revenue growth.⮞ Implemented a B2C upsales tool, increasing upsales by 35% via a seamless self-service approach in our B2C market.⮞ Overhauled WMS and ERP systems, tripling wines-handled capacity with existing staff, elevating operational efficiency and intercompany corporation.⮞ Developed a market-leading wine-investment platform, acclaimed by external auditors, enhancing customer investment opportunities.⮞ Launched a micro-investor product, skyrocketing customer growth by 200%, tapping into new market segments.⮞ Streamlined development workflows, leveraging agile and DevOps to increase team velocity by 65% YoY, significantly reducing time-to-market.Key responsibilities:• Align technology initiatives with strategic objectives, ensuring agility in navigating market volatility.• Lead cross-functional teams in engineering, product management, and design, delivering scalable and robust solutions.• Partner with executive management to seize emerging opportunities and drive technology-led organizational change for competitive advantage.• Uphold industry standards and compliance, ensuring all technology initiatives meet strict security protocols.• Evaluate and prioritize product development opportunities to maximize impact and return on investment (ROI). -
Head Of DevelopmentRare Wine A/S May 2019 - Jan 2021Northern Region, Denmark• Department Establishment & Leadership - Founded the development department from the ground up, establishing a robust technological infrastructure for RareWine. Recruited and managed a highly skilled team of 5 developers within the first year, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.• Platform Innovation & Integration - Spearheaded the development of a cutting-edge cloud-first platform utilizing .NET and React, enhancing wine sourcing and sales capabilities and moving us “excel to the cloud”. This platform served as a keystone in integrating the wine business digitally and streamlining business operations, contributing to significant organisational improvements.• Created a wine evaluation system increasing market transparency and trustworthiness while increasing valuation efficiency by a factor of 10. • Automated and improved investment reporting decreasing reporting time from 3 weeks to 3 hours• Operational Excellence & DevOps Implementation - Implemented DevOps practices, including automated build pipelines and CI/CD, significantly improving the development lifecycle and reducing time-to-market by 30%. Led the adoption of agile methodologies, optimizing product development and team productivity.• Strategic Technology Solutions - Developed and deployed technology solutions that aligned with business domains, improving process efficiency and supporting strategic objectives. Played a pivotal role in automating critical business processes, resulting in a 25% reduction in operational bottlenecks and enhancing interdepartmental collaboration. -
Head Of DevelopmentAskcody® Jul 2018 - May 2019AalborgAny company quickly grows into a myriad of resources. Hot desks, video conference rooms, assistants, parking spots and cars, catering, receptions along with a million other things. All to ensure survival in an ever disrupting world.At AskCody we strive to minimize workplace toil time, optimize work flows and help organizations understand how, and why their processes, collaboration and meetings create value while at the same time allowing those processes to have less friction and more value. We value both the organizations need for understanding, while striving to serve the most excellent user experience to all their employees.We leverage most of the modern technologies from the Azure cloud stack and are not afraid to live life in the fast track, and pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We build user friendly software at the same time as we build globally scalable infrastructure. As such at AskCody, we are no strangers to React, Graph, CosmosDB, functions, azure storage, key vault and .NET Core. Everything we build is on top of modern technologies. We are no strangers to voicing our opinions on where the technology is moving, and we strive to push the limits of what is possible. Always. It's our mission to providing organizations with the frictionless office bridging the gap between the digital workspace, like Outlook, Teams and Office 365, and the physical workspace, giving organizations and staff the visibility they need to stay in control. And it is my mission to ensure our software and infrastructure can match that goal.Tasks:- Management- Strategy- Mentoring- Team building- Coaching- Hiring- Technical sparring- Compliance- Responsible for all technology and choices within that field -
Tech Lead And Software EngineerAskcody® Oct 2017 - Jun 2018AalborgFull stack developer with the responsibilities of making sure our products technical requirements follow the requirements of the market and desires of our CSM / UX departments and visions. Generally we use a lot of new technologies, but a short list of some of the things I have worked with as of late includes:- Backend: C# / .NET / .NET Core / Dependency Injection / Test Driven Development / CI / CD / Security / A lot of Microsoft Azure Cloud services / PHP- Front end: PHP / Javascript / ReactJS / SASS - GDPR Compliance / ISAE-3000 Compliance -
Data Scientist & Software EngineerAskcody® Jun 2017 - Sep 2017AalborgFull stack development and lead of business intelligence solutions. Current responsibilities includes:- Architecture (data retreival, storage and consumption)- Backend architecture and development- Frontend architecture and development- Explorative data science - Machine Learning- Aligning data and solutions to business cases -
Business Intelligence EngineerAskcody® Mar 2016 - May 2017Creating insights for large amounts of data and presenting them in a reasonable way, and general development tasks. - Backend- Frontend- Architecture- Machine Learning- Statistics analysis - Business Intelligence -
Student Software DeveloperCoolshop.Com Sep 2014 - Feb 2016NørresundbyDeveloping frontend parts of the coolshop web catalogue. Developing asynchronous web applications with javascript / python on a site which has a high amount of traffic, as well as collaborating with marketing and backend development teams in order to realise new and exciting ideas. -
Game DeveloperDadiu Sep 2014 - Dec 2014AalborgDeveloping a game with a team of 18 on the Danish Acadamy for Digital Interactive Media. Responsibilities include graphics programming, logic programming, artificial intelligence (agent) programming, UI programming and tools programming. The game is developed in C# and using the game engine Unity.
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Founder, OwnerDb-Design Oct 2012 - Mar 2014Contact with costumers, analyzing customer needs and conveying technical problems in layman's terms, running the company, developing web-solutions including in-house CMS primarily in PHP/Javascript and designing the webpage.
Dennis Bækgaard Education Details
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12 / A+ -
Aalborg StudenterkursusHigh School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates
Frequently Asked Questions about Dennis Bækgaard
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Dennis Bækgaard works for Gavdi Group
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Dennis Bækgaard's current role is Business Development Manager.
What schools did Dennis Bækgaard attend?
Dennis Bækgaard attended Aalborg Universitet, Aalborg Universitet / Aalborg University, Aalborg Studenterkursus.
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